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The kid who grew up to fashion the swaggering superhero, pop-iconoclast, underdog-champion alter ego “Andy Black,” in the tradition of David Bowie or the Sex Pistols, began with a reverence for the magical convergence of sight and sound. Attitude, language, music, and fashion coalesced into a daily challenge to convention.

The Ghost of Ohio, the second album released under the Andy Black moniker, is both a soundtrack to its comic book graphic novel counterpart and a thrilling standalone record of diverse anthems and ballads, in pursuit of a muse that transcends genre.

The new Andy Black record marries melancholy themes with upbeat rock and pop, mining the underreported haunted history of his hometown to tell a story in allegory and grandeur that explores his childhood anxieties and obsessions. “I’ve always liked the idea of building worlds, making a character for myself, in very heightened and stylized dimensions I could live in,” Biersack explains. “It’s about expressing myself creatively, while making something that didn’t exist before.”

The unabashed anthem making of Bruce Springsteen, The Killers, and U2 collide with darker undertones alongside an all-new haunted folklore, mixing boyhood dreams with otherworldly wonder. Quite literally, The Ghost of Ohio is the tale of someone who died young, whose spirit inhabits an area for a hundred years, looking for ways to connect, feeling forgotten, fighting an overwhelming disassociation. But it’s also less straightforward story and more “songs inspired by” the specifics.

Tracklist:

Act I

Introduction: Resurrection

The Promise

Westwood Road

Know One

Soul Like Me

The Wind & Spark

Act II

Ghost of Ohio

Heroes We Were

Feast or Famine

Heaven

The Martyr

Fire in my Mind

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